Skype users will be able to move into Teams with their existing accounts.

Understandable choice, given that Skype is pretty much redundant with Teams. Back in 2004-2005 Skype was really hyped because of free voice calls through the Internet, but few days later several other messaging apps incorporated that feature; Skype’s thunder was stolen. Also its inconsistent branding was a problem: there was Skype for Business that later became Lync, ultimately becoming Teams. Skype kind of became forgotten and obsolete.

    • ByteSorcerer@beehaw.org
      2·
      10 days ago

      It was successfull for a while up to 10 years or so ago, when it was the main free option for video calling. But nowadays there are plenty of alternatives, pretty much all of which do a better job than Skype ever did.

      Skype has now been pretty much obsolete for years so I don’t think it’s too bad that it’s ending.

      The Google approach would have been to already have killed it in 2004 before it ever even had a chance to be successful.

      • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        MS would have had no chance to kill it before buying it. Now, if Meta could just start killing products, the world would be a better place.

  • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de
    15·
    11 days ago

    It’s the other way around. Lync, formerly Office Communicator, became Skype for Business which became Teams, not to be confused with Teams, a distinct, non-interoperable product made by the same company. Skype for Business probably took some code from Skype but I’d bet it was mostly about branding and it never had that much in common with the real Skype.

    Microsoft killed Skype in 2017 and replaced it with a different thing also called Skype.

  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
    12·
    11 days ago

    hardly surprising. we talk about enshittification today but Skype was one of the most egregious offenders before the term was even coined, in late-stage Skype (circa 2016-2017) i couldn’t even run the fucking thing without lag because of in-line ads. the user experience was frankly awful, and once you’ve used something like Discord or Zoom there’s just never any reason to go back.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
    8·
    11 days ago

    The last time I used skype, it was to monitor my 3d print because I needed to finish a project and my last attempt went all spaghetti.

    So as I was at work I’d log into my computer from my phone, call myself with skype, and check to make sure everything was still okay.

    Then I discovered octoprint.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    11 days ago

    I only used Skype for one thing: cheap calls from Canada to international landlines with no time limit and without having to pay a monthly subscription. Can anyone recommend a good alternative? A lot of the options out there look a bit scammy.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    4·
    11 days ago

    Looking back over my long and occasionally successful life, I must admit that I do have a few regrets here and there. One is that for a couple of years, I was a Skype user. Oh well, at least I stayed away from Teams.

  • Danielsan256@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    11 days ago

    Skype was a beast at tunnelling through proxy blocking then acting as a proxy itself for other Skype endpoints that were not as successful.